Gotham Knights PC Port Report — Oops, (they) did it once more
Arkham Knight famously had such a disastrous PC launch that the sport needed to be pulled from sale. As such, any subsequent Batman recreation on PC was going to be eyed with a substantial amount of uncertainty. Does Gotham Knights have a greater PC port than Arkham Knight launched with? Completely! Does that imply it’s good? Not even shut! The sport is certainly playable and I’ve but to see something game-breaking, as I haven’t come throughout quests that wouldn’t progress or invisible enemies like another gamers have. However as for efficiency and enter performance? This model is in fairly unhealthy form.
I’m utilizing an RTX 3090 FE alongside a 2600x and 16GB of RAM. Gotham Knights has the worst efficiency that I’ve run into whereas utilizing this specific construct. It’s largely effective in instanced environments, as I’m normally in a position to hit 80 fps fairly comfortably. However contemplating that is an open-world recreation, the vital half is out on the principle map. My fps fluctuates from round 27 to 44 right here until I’m on a freeway with no buildings in sight, at which level I get 50 to 60. This has been pretty constant and this impacts my enjoyment of the sport. I’m unsure why the optimization is so unhealthy, however I’m not alone on this.
The entire above was skilled with the settings at max. Turning the preset to lowest made hardly any distinction. Suffice to say, that is purely horrible optimization in regard to town itself. However wait, it will get worse. With ray tracing turned on, Gotham Knights grew to become an unplayable, stuttery mess. The framerate itself didn’t technically drop a lot, however the stuttering was fixed. I’ve by no means seen something like that earlier than. The sport does look pretty good, although. I simply want it ran higher. A lot higher.
Now I’m taking management
I additionally want the efficiency wasn’t the one drawback but it surely sadly isn’t. Astoundingly, Gotham Knights apparently doesn’t have precise analog assist for shifting your character, so even when enjoying on controller, the left analog can solely enter eight instructions as a substitute of a full 360-degree vary of motion. I’d wager the analog stick is ready as much as emulate a keyboard. I’d say that it’s potential that this was simply the way in which the sport was developed, however that seems like insanity to me. As a consequence of this, the motion controls simply really feel off. Similar to with the efficiency, that is begging for some form of repair. What did the Batman universe do to deserve this?
This is perhaps a bit repetitive of me, however there’s yet one more drawback with inputs, a minimum of for me. Previously, I had a controller with severe stick drift that brought on controller prompts to seem onscreen on a regular basis once I was enjoying with mouse and keyboard. Gotham Knights is giving me the other drawback. Whereas enjoying with a controller, the icons preserve jittering forwards and backwards between keyboard and gamepad. That is one other drawback I’ve by no means seen earlier than. The pile of points this port has is form of jawdropping. Once more, they’re not so unhealthy that the sport must be pulled from sale like final time, however that’s just about the lowest bar there may be. Let’s take a look at the associated menus.
Remappable controls, yadda, yadda, yadda. Normal, particularly for a AAA recreation.
There’s no fullscreen mode, unusually. I’m unsure why, however that is the second AAA recreation that I’m conscious of this week to launch with out it.
You may set your max fps with a reasonably beneficiant slider. Good luck getting a lot mileage out of that, although. There are a number of kinds of upscaling however I’m unsure how and even if that works, because it offers me no increase to my fps. There are not any ray tracing choices past on and off. Once more, this makes the sport unplayable so possibly keep away from it for now and probably without end.
There’s a great quantity of choices right here. Too unhealthy they don’t matter in any respect for me. Even on the lowest preset I used to be hovering within the 30s whereas standing nonetheless in the midst of the road.
I truly seem to love Gotham Knights as a recreation greater than the common bear. However that doesn’t imply I can excuse what might be the worst AAA port I’ve seen within the years I’ve been doing this job. Warner Bros fastened the final one after some time. Let’s hope it’s prepared to do the identical factor once more. However this ain’t Arkham Knight, so persons are by no means going to be as good about it. Higher luck subsequent time.
